The Race Equality Award: Royal Academy of Engineering

The Royal Academy of Engineering is increasing the number of engineering graduates that are ethnic minority, female, or from socially disadvantaged backgrounds and helping them into work.

Winner of Business in the Community’s Race Equality Award 2019.

Royal Academy of Engineering: Addressing jobs gap by linking more ethnic minorities with roles in sector

  • 655 students and graduates took part in 2018-19
  • 来自少数民族背景的91％
  • 年度缺口59,000工程毕业生来填补角色

作为英国国家工程技术学院，皇家工程学院都有一份重要的工作。它的研究员继续促进工程卓越。

该组织作为这项努力的一部分推出了其研究生工程订婚计划（Geep）。它旨在增加少数民族，女性或社会弱势背景的工程毕业生的数量 - 并帮助他们进入工作。

“We’re helping to ensure that engineering recruitment is inclusive and based on merit, as well as making an important contribution to addressing the persistent engineering skills gap and creating working cultures that support diversity, innovation and creativity.”

Dr Hayaatun Sillem, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering

Supporting this demographic is important, not least because there is an annual shortfall of up to 59,000 engineering graduates and technicians to fill core engineering roles, according to Engineering UK estimates1.

Geep有一些明确的目标：为了确保工程研究生人口至少由女性60％的女性，60％的少数群体组成，以及来自社会经济弱势背景的80％（例如，那些收到免费学校餐的人）。

The programme brings engineering employers and graduates and undergraduates together with the specific aim of encouraging applications for graduate/internship recruitment opportunities. The young people are offered a two-day programme of training on employability skills and there is a mentoring option to help students who secure internships translate them into something more long term.

During the three-year pilot, 468 students and recent graduates took part, rising to 655 in the first post-pilot year 2018-19. On average, 30% of participants were female, 91% from ethnic minority backgrounds, and 76% from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Unless otherwise stated, the information in this impact story has been supplied by Royal Academy of Engineering.

法官说的是什么......

“The Royal Academy of Engineering were an inspiring example of an organisation seeking to change perceptions in a sector that has often been lagging behind in terms of diversity. The panel was impressed by the forensic approach from beginning with a very refined examination of the data to crafting an intervention that would practically work for the sector. In addressing social mobility as well as race equality, the programme demonstrated a wider impact both within the sector and wider society.“

Dr Omar Khan, Director, Runnymede Trust

参考

  1. Engineering UK 2018: Synopsis and recommendations:可在Engineeringuk.com获取

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